BJP leader Kirit Somaiya has demanded a joint probe by CBI, CBDT and Enforcement Directorate. ...
04:23 PM, May 05, 2013
The political blamegame over the AgustaWestland chopper deal intensified on Friday with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dragging in Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's name. The Congress was quick to refute the claims. ...
07:52 AM, Feb 16, 2013
Even as the Ministry of Defence on Friday initiated the process to scrap the deal with AgustaWestland for 12 VVIP helicopters, the Congress and the BJP are busy playing blame game over it. In CNN-IBN's face-off, Congress's Renuka Choudhury and BJP's Kirit Somaiya joined in to discuss who is responsible for the 'tained' deal. ...
10:56 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Former Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kirit Somaiya on Friday wrote to the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking an investigation into the role of Rahul Gandhi's political aide Kanishka Singh in the AgustaWestland 101 helicopter deal. Somaiya has reportedly claimed that Emaar MGF Land Limited owned by Kanishka Singh's relatives benefitted from the chopper deal. ...
04:55 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Saturday demanded resignation of the state Governor Dr Kamla, saying it would make way for a "free and fair enquiry" into an alleged land scam pending against her in Rajasthan. The demand from Gujarat government comes at a time when a metropolitan court in Rajasthan has ordered enquiry against the samiti members of a co-operative society, of which Dr Kamla is an executive member. "How...
09:14 PM, Dec 01, 2012
The flat in Nerul in Mumbai is the registered address of a shell company investing in Nitin Gadkari's firm. ...
07:47 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: BJP Secretary Kirit Somaiya on Tuesday met Minister of State in PMO V Narayansamy to complain that the CBI probe into the Adarsh Housing scam is slow, contradictory and hit by hurdles and presented his set of demands in the case. "Investigation and action in the Adarsh scam is not only slow but also contradictory. The role and actions of Government of India and Maharashtra government raise several...
01:19 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Panaji: The BJP on Friday pegged Goa mining scam at Rs 25,000 crore, and claimed that the profits of the scam were being routed through companies in tax haven countries like Mauritius and Cayman Islands. BJP National Secretary Kirit Somaiya alleged at a press conference that "this is the biggest illegal mining scam in India, running into Rs 25,000 crore in the period of just two years". He also alleged...
07:00 PM, Oct 07, 2011
New Delhi: On Friday CNN-IBN broke the story of involvement of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee OC CEO Jarnail Singh in giving a go ahead to the Timing, Scoring and Result (TSR) deal. And now it is learnt that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is also planning to summon Jarnail Singh for investigations in TSR deal. They are now wondering why Singh, despite being the CEO, did not raise the ...
08:12 PM, Apr 29, 2011
New Delhi: On Friday CNN-IBN broke the story of involvement of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee OC CEO Jarnail Singh in giving a go ahead to the Timing, Scoring and Result (TSR) deal. And now it is learnt that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is also planning to summon Jarnail Singh for investigations in TSR deal. They are now wondering why Singh, despite being the CEO, did not raise the...
08:12 PM, Apr 29, 2011
Lucknow: BJP on Thursday alleged that the Mayawati-led government in Uttar Pradesh was involved in scams to the tune of Rs 2.54 lakh crore and said the party would soon submit a report on it along with documentary evidence to the concerned authorities. "In the first 'First Information Report' being submitted to state president Surya Pratap Shahi, 100 major scams of Mayawati government amounting to Rs 2.54 lakh crore have...
04:18 PM, Apr 07, 2011
BJP ex-MP Kirit Somaiya claims that EVMs can be manipulated. ...
10:24 AM, Aug 07, 2009
The companies are in the dock over inflated balance sheets. ...
02:45 AM, Jan 17, 2009
